Masterful Handcrafts, Setting the City Ablaze

The lights in the “Mellow Ground” café were dim, and every table was spaced far apart to ensure privacy. Lin Xi had come to buy a batch of Irish hand-sewing waxed thread urgently needed by her handicraft club. The owner of the café was a leathercraft enthusiast who could always get his hands on materials rarely found on the market. She was headed for the bar, but an argument in one corner seized her full attention first. A man in a bespoke suit, a gleaming gold watch on his wrist, was pushing a design blueprint toward a younger man. The man’s manner was humble, almost pleading.